Ryan Farrow

“Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.”
― Epicurus, The Essential Epicurus

“Our whole education system is calculated to produce *feelings* in us, impart them to us, instead of leaving their production to ourselves however they may turn out...Thus stuffed with imparted feelings, we appear before the bar of majority and are 'pronounced of age." Our equipment consists of "elevating feelings, lofty thoughts, inspiring maxims,eternal principles.”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

“How little I myself really need, when people leave me alone, with the intellectual powers at work serenely. The drops of falling water, a few wild flowers with their priceless fragrance, even a few tufts of half-dead leaves, changing colour in the quiet of a room that has but light and shadow in it…”
― Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean

“Her eyes narrowed until they were a faint greenish glitter, like a forest pool far back in the shadow of trees.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep